Making carbon pay

Four McGillians are through to the semi-finals of a $20M competition to develop technologies that turn carbon dioxide emissions into high-value products. Their invention: concrete blocks strengthened with CO2 gas and made with a steel industry waste product instead of carbon-intensive cement.Learn more

SSHRC Gold

McGill education professor Claudia Mitchell has won the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s highest honour, the Gold Medal. The award recognizes Prof. Mitchell’s sustained leadership in the use of participatory approaches to address issues such as HIV/AIDS and violence against children.Learn more

CRC success for McGill

Sixteen McGill researchers have been honoured with the award or renewal of a Canada Research Chair, a program that helps attract some of the world’s best and brightest to keep Canadian research at the cutting edge.Learn more

Human rights champion

McGill social work professor Cindy Blackstock is this year’s winner of The Law Society of Upper Canada’s Human Rights Award, in recognition of her exceptional efforts to tackle systemic discrimination against First Nations children and youth within Canada’s child welfare system.Learn more

Rivers under threat

A new study co-authored by McGill geography professor Bernhard Lehner highlights the devastating impact of upstream pollution on the world’s major river systems, concluding that protection of rivers is falling well short of the UN’s biodiversity targets.Learn more

Indigenous forums begin

At the first open forum of the Provost’s Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education, members of the McGill community made concrete proposals for increasing Indigenous presence in all aspects of campus life.Learn more